Every one of the 16 previous singles on which Jennifer Lopez has been the principal performer has dropped on its second week in the chart, including both of her previous number ones so she's in uncharted territory with On The Floor (feat. Pitbull), which remains atop the chart for a second straight week. With Adele�s Someone Like You dipping 2-3 (51,069 sales), her biggest challenge came from the LMFAO/Lauren Bennett/GoonRock single Party Rock Anthem, which enjoys big gains for the second week in a row, moving 3-2, with sales up 30.30% to 69,893.
Only two of the 12 new entries to the Top 75 sold sufficient copies to debut inside the Top 40 � and Chris Brown is on them both. Beautiful People by Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi, debuts at number 20 (15,014 sales) while Best Love Song, by T-Pain feat. Chris Brown, debuts at number 40 (6,380 sales). Brown has now had 15 Top 40 hits from 21 Top 75 entries. Three singles progress into the Top 10. Katy Perry leads the way, with E.T. leaping 12-5 (45,424 sales); Mann�s Buzzin (feat 50 Cent) improves its standing for the fourth straight week, moving 11-6 (37,403 sales); and Snoop Dogg�s Sweat climbs 16-9 (30,081 sales).
Perry�s single is currently number one in America, but Mann had rather less success there with Buzzin - which samples Nu Shooz�s I Can�t Wait � which has fallen off the list after peaking at number 61. Originally a solo track, E.T. was re-recorded with a rap from Kanye West, for whom it is the 30th Top 75 entry, a tally which puts him in joint third place in the all-time list of rappers with most hits.
Eminem and Jay-Z lead the list with 36 hits each, while West is tied with Snoop Dogg and one ahead of Diddy. All are currently in the chart, as are three other rappers with more than 20 hits � Busta Rhymes (26), 50 Cent and Lil Wayne (21 each). Flo Rida has a comparatively modest 12 hits but the arrival of his latest, Who Dat Girl (number 64, 3,696 sales), provides the 34th hit for his R&B pal, Akon. Only two debuts this week for Glee Cast: Sing, a cover of the My Chemical Romance song (number 46, 5,425 sales) and Justin Bieber's Baby (number 67, 3,542 sales). Glee�s patronage also precipitates a Top 75 debut for the original of Sing, which previously peaked at number 97 in January. Glee Cast have issued two songs called Sing, the first being their cover of the song of that name from the musical A Chorus Line, which dell short of the Top 75 earlier this year. They also did two songs called Smile, neither of which made the Top 75. Singles sales are down 9.24% week-on-week at 2,892,081, 22.09% above same week 2010 sales of 2,368,805. It follows singles best quarter ever, 44,679,739 were sold in the first 13 weeks of 2011, an increase of 0.85% on the previous record set in the final quarter of 2010, and 6.39% above same period 2010 sales.
Take That sixth studio album Progress has become the first album to sell more than 2m copies in the 2010s. After a spectacular first week sale of 518,601 copies, the album took 23 days to reach a million copies, and 139 days to sell two million. It�s the fourth album by the band to sell upwards of 2m copies, joining Beautiful World (2,801,939 sales since its 2006 release), immediate predecessor The Circus (2,150,472, 2008) and 2005 compilation, Never Forget � The Ultimate Collection (2,094,070). It�s the 32nd album to post more than 2m sales since 2000, reaching the target three days after the 31st � Michael Jackson�s 2003 compilation, Number Ones. Take That is the only group to have four million selling albums in the 21st century, though Robbie Williams � who, of course, returned to the group for Progress � has four 2m selling albums to his credit this century, and an unprecedented six in total, in a solo capacity. For all its success, Progress slips to the lowest position of its 21 week chart career, falling 20-26 (5,691 sales) this week.
Progress became the first multi-million seller of the 2010s in the decade�s 65th week � but a second album is likely to join it in less than a fortnight. Inevitably, that album is Adele�s 21, which continues to enjoy remarkably buoyant sales. Although making a sharp descent from its Mother�s Day fuelled tally of the week before, 21 sold a further 114,476 copies last week, raising its 76 day sales to 1,868,794. It has sold upwards of 100,000 copies in each of its 11 first weeks in the shops � a record. 21 moves into joint first place in the list of albums by female solo artists with most weeks at number one, joining Shania Twain�s Come On Over (1999) and Alanis Morissette�s Jagged Little Pill (1996), neither of which accumulated their 11 weeks at number one in a continuous residency. Surpassing the 10 straight weeks that Dire Straits� Brothers In Arms and Adam & The Ants� Kings Of The Wild Frontier spent at number one in 1986 and 1981, respectively, 21 has now spent more consecutive weeks at number one than any regular studio album since Simon & Garfunkel�s Bridge Over Troubled Water put together a run of 13 in a row (out of a grand total of 33) in 1970. Runner-up to 21 four times in the previous six weeks, Adele�s debut album 19 dips to number three (38,752 sales), ceding second place to Katy B�s first long player, On A Mission (44,228 sales), which has already yielded four Top 20 singles. Glasvegas also debuted at number two with their eponymous 2008 debut, on first week sales of 56,387, but with no hit single to support it, their follow-up Euphoric Heartbreak makes a quieter debut at number 10 (10,773 sales) � though Scots fans remain more faithful to the Glasgow indie band, with the album entering at number three in Scotland.
After last week�s Mother�s Day boost, and with the unseasonably warm weather reducing retail footfall, album sales shrink considerably, tumbling 31.64% week-on-week to 1,680,176 but are still 6.93% ahead of same week 2010 sales of 1,571,359 � the second lowest of the 588 weeks that have elapsed thus far in the 21st century. It�s a positive start to the second quarter of 2011.The first quarter saw a shortfall of 2.67% year-on-year, with album sales in the first 13 weeks of this year at 26,982,768 ,compared to 27,722,955 in 2010.
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